ABUSE

Missing Knox teacher
Christopher Fotis found(Sydney Morning Herald) Apr 11 - A former Knox teacher who could not be found after he was summonsed to
appear at a royal commission hearing into sex abuse at the elite school has
been apprehended by police.

INTERNATIONAL
STORIES

Catholic
Church

Pope on diplomatic
tightrope with Armenian genocide mass (The West Australian) Apr 11 - Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis will mark the 100th anniversary of
the mass killings of Armenians with a special ceremony on Sunday, with all eyes
on whether he will use the word "genocide".

Islam

Sanctions key to keeping
Iran’smullahs honest (The
Australian) Apr 11 - The gainsaying from Tehran proved the point to Efraim ­Halevy: if you
are asking whether the Iranians can be trusted to stick to the deal and
dismantle their ­nuclear weapons program, you are asking the wrong question.

Istanbul's Hagia Sophia
sees first Koran reading in 85 years (The West Australian) Apr 12 - Istanbul (AFP) - A Muslim cleric has for the first time in 85 years
recited the Koran in the Hagia Sophia, the world famous landmark of Istanbul
which is now a museum after serving as a church and a mosque, reports said
Saturday.

Kenya official compares
Garissa University terror victims to 'cockroaches' (Brisbane Times) Apr 10 - Johannesburg: Kenyan officials have admitted they made mistakes in
their handling of last week's terror attack on Garissa University College, but
one senior police official seemed to put the onus on the victims, saying people
should fight back and "don't just be killed like cockroaches".

10 killed in Taliban
siege on Afghan court complex (The
West Australian) Apr 10 - Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan) (AFP) - At least 10 people died Thursday
when Taliban insurgents wearing military uniforms mounted a six-hour gun and
grenade siege on a court complex in northern Afghanistan, in an assault
highlighting the country's fragile security situation.

Tibetan nun burns herself
to death in China: reports (The
West Australian) Apr 11 - Beijing (AFP) - A Tibetan nun is believed to have died after setting
herself on fire to protest China's rule over the Himalayan region and to voice
support for the Dalai Lama, rights groups and media said.

Also: IS militants destroy
Nimrud in jihadist video (news.com.au) Apr 12 - NIMRUD, which was shown being blown up in a jihadist video, was once
the jewel of Assyria, home to a treasure considered one of the biggest
archaeological finds of the 20th century.

Other

President Barack Obama
to call for end to gay 'conversion' therapies (Brisbane Times) Apr 9 - Washington:A 17-year-old transgender
youth, Leelah Alcorn, stunned her friends and a vast Internet audience in
December when she threw herself in front of a tractor-trailer after writing in
an online suicide note that religious therapists had tried to convert her back
to being a boy.

Jamaica looks to Jewish
tourism (The West Australian)
Apr 10 - It's Saturday morning at Sha'are Shalom, but there aren't enough Jews
gathered in the dim light of Jamaica's only synagogue to conduct a formal
prayer service.